An Argentine-born practice rooted in Valencia
Tamara Djurovic, known as Hyuro, was born in Buenos Aires in 1974 and made Valencia her base. She completed studies in Artistic Production at the Universitat Politècnica de València in 2009 and developed a practice that moved between drawing, painting and the street.
From Valencia, her murals travelled across Europe and the Americas while retaining a recognisably restrained figurative language.
Bodies, care and social structure
Hyuro used anonymous bodies and ordinary gestures to examine gender, domestic labour, care and public power. Sparse settings make posture and relation carry the scene.
Her murals resist a single explanation: the viewer encounters a situation first, then notices how tenderness, tension and constraint coexist inside it.
A continuing place in Valencia’s mural culture
Hyuro died in Valencia on 19 November 2020. In 2021, Poliniza Dos dedicated a special edition to her, bringing artists together at the UPV to acknowledge the force and influence of her work.
Her archive and the murals that remain continue to offer an essential reference for reading socially engaged figurative art in the city.
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